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Re: Re: Bug#592900: Updating system-config-printer



On Fri, Sep  3, 2010 at 07:53:24 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, den 02.09.2010, 19:08 +0200 schrieb Guido Günther:
> > Neither Conflicts+Replaces nor Conflicts+Breaks lets apt-get figure out
> > the right thing while aptitude handles all well. Even adding a
> > Provides: hal-cups-utils doesn't work.
> 
> Erm, I meant Breaks+Replaces, not Conflicts+Breaks! Please try again.
> 
> However, maybe the *versioned* Conflicts/Breaks/Replaces is the culprit
> here, because it pretends to open up another possible way for apt to
> solve this situation by upgrading h-c-u. But the truth is, there is no
> such version of h-c-u available and even if it was, the package is to be
> completely removed anyway.
> 
> However, I think ubuntu introduced a dummy hal-cups-utils package that
> depends on s-c-p-udev to ease the transition.
> 
So I went and asked the apt people.  The problem seems to be that
because python-cupsutils has reverse dependencies its removal gets a bad
score.  Would it be possible to keep python-cupsutils as a dummy
transitional package depending on python-cupshelpers?

Cheers,
Julien

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